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With the Flint water scandal being as big as it is, it's hard to imagine that an issue over emails could overshadow the scandal itself.
Nonetheless, the mention of privately sent emails about state business echoes concerns about Hillary Clinton's battle over a non-government email address and the issue of transparency in government.
Paul Egan and Matthew Dolan of the Detroit Free Press report in the latest email release Thursday from the governor's office show that Gov. Rick Snyder's Chief of Staff Jarrod Agen admonished two other top aides in December for using their personal e-mail accounts to discuss the Flint drinking water crisis.
Agen wrote that "this is state business," and government accounts should be used, the Freep reports.
"We should use our official accounts for this," Agen told Snyder adviser Rich Baird and Snyder's then-communications director Meegan Holland on Dec. 24 after receiving an e-mail from Holland about a proposed Flint communications plan on his personal e-mail account.
"This is state business. We are doing the right thing. I don't ever want to give the appearance that this group is trying to NOT be transparent by using personal accounts."